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Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond Thomas (right), converses with Portmore’s Mayor, Leon McKenzie, while on tour of the new Portmore Municipal Corporation building in St. Catherine, which is currently under construction.

Minister Mckenzie to Seek More Funds for Trucking Water

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie, says he will be going to Cabinet to seek more funds for the provision of water to communities that are severely affected by the current dry conditions. “We are going to...

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Six-hour Restriction to a Section of Junction Road Starts Today

Local Government and Community Development Minister, Hon. Desmond McKenzie (centre) converses with Portmore Mayor, Leon Thomas (left), during a tour of the new Portmore Municipal Corporation building site in St. Catherine on Friday (July 27). At right is Project Officer at the municipal corporation, Anthony Wilson.

New Portmore Municipal Building Will Benefit Residents

Principal Finance Officer at the Office of the Prime Minister (OPM), Rosalie Phipps (2nd right), along with Co-Task Team Leader at the World Bank, Karlene Francis (2nd left), and Project Manager for the OPM Youth Employment in the Digital and Animation Industries (YEDAI) Project, Margery Newland (right), celebrate with animation instructors at the closing ceremony for YEDAI's 'Train the Trainers' course held on (July 27) at the Excelsior Community College in Kingston. Fifty animation instructors participated in the training.

50 Animation Instructors Trained under Youth Employment Project

Minister of Education, Youth, and Information, Senator the Hon. Ruel Reid. (File)

Tertiary Education System Being Restructured

Minister of State in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Senator the Hon. Pearnel Charles Jr.

8 years ago National SecuritySenate

Senate Approves Extension of St. James State of Emergency

The State of Public Emergency now in effect in St. James, will continue for another three months, until November 1. Members of the Senate, during Friday’s (July 27) sitting, unanimously approved the extension under the Emergency Powers (Continuance) (No. 3) Resolution, 2018. Last week, the Lower House voted in favour of the extension. The State of Public Emergency was declared...

8 years ago National Security

Communities, Businesses Urged to Make Use of Jamaicaeye

The Ministry of National Security is encouraging more communities and businesses to make use of the JamaicaEye initiative. Speaking at a recent JIS Think, Senior Director of Modernisation and Strategic Projects in the Ministry, Arvel Grant, said there are various options available for persons to set up a closed circuit television (CCTV) system and contribute the feed to JamaicaEye. He...

General Manager of the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Co-operative Credit Union, Robert Ramsay (right), presents a cheque for $50,000 to Lorell Duncan. Occasion was the credit union

8 years ago Education

GSAT Students Receive Bursaries from JTA Credit Union

Students, who excelled in the Grade Six Achievement Test (GSAT), have been awarded bursaries valued at $1.75 million by the Jamaica Teachers’ Association (JTA) Co-operative Credit Union. The cheques were presented to 70 children of credit union members from across the island, during an awards function on July 27 at the Knutsford Court Hotel in New Kingston. Five students were...

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke (left), shares a joke with Minister without Portfolio in the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service, Hon. Fayval Williams (centre); and Bank of Jamaica (BOJ) Governor, Brian Wynter, prior to the start of the second annual National Financial Inclusion Council Meeting and Forum, at the Terra Nova All-Suite Hotel in St. Andrew on Friday (July 27). Dr. Clarke chairs the Council, while Mr. Wynter is Chairman of the Financial Inclusion Steering Committee.

8 years ago Finance & Public Service

Microcredit Act to be Tabled Within 12 Months

Finance and the Public Service Minister, Dr. the Hon. Nigel Clarke, says the proposed Microcredit Act will be tabled in Parliament within the next 12 months. He noted that the legislation remains a high priority for the Administration, and aims to register and license microlending institutions that provide financing to micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs). It also seeks to...

Executive Director at the Centre for Digital Innovation at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU), Erica Simmons (second left), accepts a cheque for $5 million from partners in the Jamaica Diaspora Investment Group – Kimone Gooden (second right) and Leo Gilling (right), for the establishment of a technology entrepreneurship lab at the CMU. The presentation was made at the university

8 years ago Diaspora

Diaspora Group Invests $5 Million in CMU Technology Entrepreneurship Lab

The Jamaica Diaspora Investment Group has provided $5 million for the establishment of a technology entrepreneurship laboratory at the Caribbean Maritime University (CMU). The investment will help to get the lab operational and hire engineers to produce its first web-based platform, dubbed ‘Project Pakasa’, work on which is slated to begin next week and to be completed in three months....

Attorney General and Member of Parliament for St. James West Central, Marlene Malahoo Forte (second right), and Managing Director, Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF), Omar Sweeney (centre), sign contracts for JSIF’s 2018 summer camps, at the agency

8 years ago Youth

2,500 to Benefit from JSIF Summer Camps

A total of 2,500 children and young people from communities across the island are slated to benefit from a series of summer camps being staged by the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) at a cost of $38.4 million. The 36 camps, which got under way on July 1 and will run until August 31, involve collaboration with the Ministry of...

Jamaica’s Ambassador to the United States, Her Excellency Audrey Marks (fourth left), joins the large congregation at the Jamaica 55 independence service held last year at Dumbarton Chapel, Howard University School of Law in Washington DC. (Photo Derrick Scott)

8 years ago CultureForeign Affairs

Jamaica 56 Celebrations in the United States

Jamaicans residing in Washington DC, Baltimore, Philadelphia and Atlanta will be celebrating the country’s 56th anniversary of Independence with a number of activities from August 4 to 26. The Embassy of Jamaica in Washington DC, under the leadership of Ambassador Audrey Marks, will be engaged in several events, in collaboration with various Jamaican organisations. In Baltimore, Ambassador Marks will deliver...